Nordstrom clerk accused of stealing customers' credit card info

Authorities believe a former Nordstrom store clerk at Arden Fair Mall accessed customers’ credit card and personal information to purchase items from the retailer and return them for cash.

Kathleen Wade, 29, is in jail connected to a slew of charges, including bank fraud and identity theft.

KCRA 3 obtained a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, claiming Wade, “using her position at Nordstrom, obtained the true account number of the victim” for fraudulent use.

The court document also states that she worked with Glen Shoults, 26, and a number of others, and noted that Nordstrom cameras captured “high-quality images of Wade and her associates making fraudulent charges and later returning the items.”

Wade made large purchases, according to the documents, including two in the amounts of $961.12 and $594.78.

Furthermore, postal inspector Dustin Warner also noted in the criminal complain that after authorities arrested Wade at a Sacramento hotel, they found her with other people’s mail, including a stolen money order that she cashed, as well as stolen Postal Service parcel lock keys.

Warner stated that Wade confessed to using a stolen Visa “because she needed cash to pay for her hotel room and provide for her child,” and that she admitted to knowing the post office keys were also stolen.

Wade faces two violations of bank fraud; one violation of aggravated identity theft, two violations of possessing stolen U.S. mail, one violation of lying to a government agency and one violation of possessing stolen US Postal Service keys.

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